Almost Around 500 Bollywood personalities and an 8,000-strong audience reportedly flown in from all over the world to attend the ceremony at Macau. All the winners, except Farah and Jason, were present at the event.
In the technical awards category, ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ swept through the award function with Ballu Saluja bagging Best Editing award, Nitin Chandrakant Desai got the Best Art Direction award, Neeta Lulla for Best Costume Design.
Resul Pokkutty, who made history by winning an Oscar for his work in Slumdog Millionaire , bagged the Best Sound Recording Award for Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini with Amrit.
The Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer ‘Jodhaa Akbar won maximum awards at The International Indian Film Academy(IIFA) on Saturday in Macau.
Double Oscar award winner A R Rahman won the Best Music Director award for ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, Javed Akhtar grabbed the trophy for Best Lyrics category for ‘Jodhaa Akbar’.
Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai -Bachchan got the prestigious Special Award for Global Impact. Abhishekh Bachchan won the Best Comedian award for Dostana.
Shreya Ghoshal got the Best Female Playback singer for ‘Singh is Kinng’
Jason West for ‘Rock On!’ grabbed best Cinematographer award, while Best Choreography award went to Farah Khan for her song Desi girl from ‘Dostana’.
Yesteryear superstar Rajesh Khanna was honored with the Life Time Achievement Award at the function.
Univercell Vijay Awards 2009, an awards ceremony for the stars and films chosen by the best jury and the audience. It was a star studded evening at the Univercell Vijay Awards 2009 with Kollywood stars filling the charged atmosphere with their charismatic aura. The voting starts from May 17th for Vijay Awards Tamil movies. The 3rd Annual Univercell vijay awards 2009 that was held in jawaharlal nehru stadium on 13 th june 2009. It witnessed several popular artists, technicians, movie-makers from the filmdom who graced the vijay awards with glamour and glitz
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Last Monday we planned for a trip to Pondicherry. Usually we use to plan a lot for a trip but nevertheless it has worked out. But I had a feeling that this plan was organized well. As per our plan all my friends gathered at bus stand. We then boarded a bus to Pondicherry.
After arriving to the beach, two of my friends stared jogging. But I had another idea. I took up the phone and started to take some beautiful pictures of the beach. It was quite interesting. I had great fun while taking the photo stuffs. Then we all had a chance to watch the trick used by fishermen in trapping the fishes.